Hame.



Patented Dec. 3, l90l. E. B. HAGOOD & W. D. HDLLINGS.

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(Application filed May 4, 1901.)

(No Mudi.)

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UNITED STATES ATENT EDDIE B. HAGOOD AND WILLIE D. ROLLINGS, OF HINKLEVILLE, KENTUCKY; SAID ROLLINGS ASSIGNOR TO SAID HAGOOD.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 687,825, dated December 3, 1901.

Application filed May 4, 1901. Serial No. 58,752. (No model.)

To all; whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, EDDIE B. HAGOOD and WILLIE D. RoLLINes, citizens of the United States, and residents of the town of Hinkleville, county of Ballard, and State of Kentucky, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hames, of which the following is a specification.

The object of our invention is to provide an attachment for hames whereby the tugfastening is adjustable vertically upon the hames; and with this and minor objects in view our invention consists of the parts and combination of parts, as will be hereinafter more fully set out.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a hame with our invention attached. Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a transverse section on the line a a, Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is aperspective view of the sliding member.

In the drawings, 1 represents a hame of approved construction.

2 is a. groove cut in the face of the hame.

3 is a plate having an elongated slot 4, said plate being secured on the face of the hame by suitable screws or other desired means immediately over the slot 2 formed in the hame. The elongated slot in the plate 3 is narrower than the slot or groove formed in the hame, whereby the edges of the slot 4 overhang the slot 2 in the body of the hame, as clearly shown in Fig. 3.

14 represents series of openings formed through the plate 3 on one side of the elongated slot, to be hereinafter referred to.

5 is a plate, from the sides of which extend suitable wings 6, said wings being of less thickness than the plate 5, thereby forming a substantially T-shaped body.

7 represents lugs extending upwardly from the plate 5 and projecting beyond each side of the plate 5 to a point beyond the outer edges of the wings 6, as clearly shown in Figs. 3 and 4.

8 is a lug extending from theside of one of the lugs 7 above the plane of the top of the plate 5 and provided with a suitable perforation 9. 7

10 is a tug-hook secured between the lugs 7 by means of the pin 11. The'upper end of the elongated slot is opened,as at 12, as shown in the several figures.

In assembling the parts the slidable member, comprising the plate 5, wings 6, lugs 7 and 8, is slid into the slot 4 of the plate 3. The wings 6 extend beneath the plate 3 on each side of the slot 4, while the extreme ends of the lug 7 extend above the plate 4beyond each side of the slot, as seen in Fig. 3. The plate 3 is then secured by means of suitable screws to the hame immediately above the groove 2 formed in said hame, thereby firmly affixing all parts to the hame. The upper end of the elongated slot in the plate 3 may, if desired, be suitably closed. The tug being attached to the slidable member by means of the bolt 11, said member is moved up or down until the desired adjustment is secured, when the pin 13 is passed through the opening 9 in the lug 8 and thence through one of the several openings 14 formed in the plate 3 to one side of the elongated slot. In order to lock the pin 13 in its position, one end of the bolt 11 is passed through the eye formed in the upper end of the pin 13, thereby preventing said pin from becoming displaced, as it would be impossible for the pin to move out of engagement with the openings in the lug 9 and the plate 3 until the bolt 11 is withdrawn.

What we claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination with a hame of a groove formed in one face thereof, of a plate secured over said groove, anelongated slot formed in said plate of less width than the groove in the hame, a plate adapted to slide in said elongated slot,wings extending laterally from the bottom edge of said plate and lugs extending laterally from each end at the upper edge of said plate, and means for securing said plate in its adjusted position in said groove.

2. The combination of a hame having a groove formed in one face thereof, of a plate secured over said groove, an elongated slot formed in said plate of less width than the said groove, a series of openings formed through said plate to one side of said elongated slot, a plate adapted to slide in said elongated slot, wings extending laterally from the lower edge each side of said plate and ICO adapted to move in the groove in the hame, eye of said pin, all combined and operating lugs extending upwardly and laterally from as described. each end of the upper edge of said plate, said The foregoing specification signed this 30th lugs extending beyond each side of the groove day of April, 1901. 5 formed in the hame, a perforatedlug extending from one end of one of the last-named lugs, and a pin adapted to pass through said perforated lugs to the perforations in the In presence of plate secured to the hame, and a tug-bolt J. J. GRACE,

1 0 adapted to pass through the end lugs and the I. E. OONLEY. 

